The insane patient is laid in a dark, foul-smelling well full of corpses, and the physician lets blood by puncturing all the forehead veins.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- उन्माद में अंधकूप शयन और ललाट से रक्तमोक्षण
- English
- Dark-well confinement and forehead bloodletting in insanity
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Confinement in the dark well; venesection of the forehead veins.
कुशल वैद्य रोगी के ललाट में रहने वाले सर्व शिराओं को व्यथन करके रक्रमो़ाण भी करें।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Insanity (unmada)(उन्माद)
Therapies involvedBloodletting (raktamokshana)रक्तमोक्षण
Organs mentionedHeadसिर (शिर)
कूपेःतिपूतिबहुभीमशवाकुलेःस्मिन्। तं शाययेदतिमहाबहलांधकारे॥ सम्यग्ललाटतटसर्वशिराश्च लिढ्वा। रक्रप्रमो़ाणमपीह भिषग्विदधयात्॥ 110॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 17 · p. 372 · v. 110.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- A footnote says such acts usually bring the patient's mind back to its place.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 17
- Extraction tasks
- T17
- Record id
- method_unmada_raktamokshana_p444